Extension and Enrichment Reading for Year 12 Economists

I have brought together a selection of articles on different aspects of economics drawing on journal and magazine articles from recent months. They are designed to take Year 12 economists into interesting areas of recent research in economics, management and the application of economic ideas to social and political policy with one eye on strengthening their UCAS application.

Here is the collection of articles as it stands - I would be hugely grateful for additional ideas from teaching colleagues and I will happily produce an extended version adding in the recommendations.

1. How bad biology killed the economy (Frans de Waal, RSA Journal)
2. The new economics game (Richard Reeves, Management Today, June 2010)
3. Capital gains (David Halpern, RSA Journal)
4. Descent of Rational Man (Pete Lunn, RSA Journal)
5. How I found what’s wrong with economics (Ernst Fehr, New Scientist)
6. A smarter and cost efficient way to fight crime (Robert H Frank, New York Times)
7. The Plundered Planet – reconciling prosperity with nature (Paul Collier, Guardian)
8. Bossonomics (Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen, CEP magazine)
9. When ideas have sex (prosperity and trust) - Michael Shermer
10. The Great British Economy Disaster (John Lanchester)
11. The Rational Optimist (Matt Ridley interviewed in the Guardian)
12. The Irrational Side of Corporate Bonuses (Dan Ariely)
13. Broaden your vision with identity economics (George Akerlof writing in the Japanese Times)
14. Keynes recovered – (Boston Review of Books)
15. Elinor Ostrom and the Future of Economics (Harvard Business Review Blog)
16. Emotional Prosperity, not GDP (Professor Andrew Oswald, Warwick University)

Please do email through with suggestions or add them to the comments string below - thanks!